The Past and Future of the Hard Drive

Snags writes "Brian Hayes of American Scientist has written a nice little historical review of hard drive technology, from the first hard drive (nice pic) made by IBM in 1956 to what may be available in 10-15 years. He muses on how to fill up a 120 TB hard drive with text, photos, audio, and video (60,000 hours of DVD's). Kind of ironic that this came in my mailbox today considering IBM's announcement."

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120TB?! It's not enough already

[Nathdot]

He muses on how to fill up a 120 TB hard drive

Let's see - if the history of the internet serves as an apt model - 120TB drives probably won't meet consumer demands for long.

First harddrives will start to fill up with fully-imersive holo-pr0n, followed quickly, due to adaptive marketing trends by fully-imersive unsolicitted holo-spam.

There... that solves that ol' capacity problem quite nicely then.

:)

autopr0n

[Renraku]

"Thus the 120-terabyte disk will hold some 60,000 hours worth of movies; if you want to watch them all day and all night without a break for popcorn, they will last somewhat less than seven years." Most people can't even last seven minutes with high-res pr0n playing, much less seven YEARS.

Re:What will be on it in 10 -15 years (I hope)

[glwtta]

First off, virtual reality files, especially with photorealistic motion images, kineorealistic tactile sensation, and sound, (plus possibly smell).

Mmmm.... future pr0n.